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“…Do you believe in souls…?”
Purah asks Link a question, and it takes an extremely long time to get an answer.
If he has any worries about his own soul, or what he thinks happens when people die, he tends to redirect to Zelda, Kapson, or anyone in his vicinity who can handle the topic better than he can, where as he treats it like trying to walk around a cottonmouth viper.
Purah doesn't take that as an answer though, and goes for a second trial attempt at the question. -
Siren by jackalshepherd
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
21 May 2022
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[Siren: a mythological half-bird half-woman, tempting people from the sea with things they desire; through, song, music, or enchanting the wind.]
It’s been weeks if not longer since Link has sailed off from Hyrule, his experiences and haunts of the previous adventure and battles pressing on his back and shoulders like a redead. And now that he’s truly had the time to focus on himself and not monsters, he’s only more reckless and hungry. He’s glad for the escape from Hyrule, but now the stress of princesses, oracles, and beasts have been swapped for stressing over reason, anger, and fear of wasting his time. He’s sure that he’s supposed to be out here, though. He can feel it. He can hear it. Like someone singing in the wind.
…Does he hear someone singing…?
Everything feels...off, somehow. And Link can't quite explain why. -
Keep the Home Fires Burning by jackalshepherd
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
04 May 2022
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An attempt at writing an eldritch horror twist of Twilight Princess, basically. Will take artistic liberties with interpersonal relationships with the characters, and Link grows as a person. This is just the first chapter out of many. I will write a better summary when it is not three in the morning.
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- Part 1 of Leave the same way you wandered through
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Hylia's Chosen--Sky, seems to be the default carrier of the Master Sword. "Fi," he calls her. They all have opportunities to wield her in battle, though it's interesting to notice who carries the sword differently. The discussion they all had about the Master Sword, and the duality of it and what wielding it means, over the campfire a while back hadn't left the Champion's mind, put on the back burner until it rears its difficult head again. It gives him a lot to think about, and while all their words were sparse and straightforward (as they all tend to be), they said much more without their words than they ever let on. With conflicting views on this life-changing, but codependent sword of theirs, the Champion picks the brain of their resident tactician.
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Break by jackalshepherd
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
07 Nov 2021
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Poly Link with Zelda and Sidon.
Wild is away on a long trip with the rest of the chosen heroes, and is becoming homesick, and terribly misses his found family and lovers back home.
He develops a bad habit of taking too long to reply to the letters he gets, and yet internally becomes impatient and insecure (but he never acts on it) when he waits for a letter in return. Eventually, it becomes cyclical when Wild writes to them, asking if they are writing out of obligation, or if they’d like to stop writing to him, to stop worrying about him. That makes Zelda angry, and Sidon angry but also concerned as well, the both of them. Communication is needed but it’s hard when tone is nonexistent on paper, and Wild is afraid of making the situation worse, but it will be worse if he does nothing. So he is stuck, and it hurts, and he just wants to see his family.Basically, the long and difficult journey away from home is taking a toll on Wild, and his partners, and he is not well experienced with handling that with a now long-distance (and time/era hopping) relationship.
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Leave the same way you wandered through by jackalshepherd
Fandom The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
04 May 2022
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“You know if shit’s bugging you I want you to talk to me about it, right?” She replied while eating her own meal.
“I know,” an appreciative smile formed on Kris’s face, but the haunted look in their eyes remained. “Hard to describe it. Pictures that go away when I try to focus. Sounds I can’t quite hear over the static.”
“I get it,” a hand reached across the table and rested on Kris’s arm again. Dess smiled back at them, “like everything’s screaming and silent all at once. But we don’t gotta deal with any of it alone. Don’t forget that, okay Krissy?”
A couple years have passed since Deltarune's story. Kris, Susie, and Noelle all end up at different universities. Dess has been saved, but is trying to make up lost time for the years spent as the knight. She attends college with Kris and the two become roommates.
A story of two people navigating adulthood while trying to heal from past trauma together.
Bookmarked by jackalshepherd
11 Jul 2026
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A glimpse of a fang. The lake in the rain. Gold hair catching sunlight. Their own irrevocable dishonesty. Kris once made eye contact with Noelle over the back of Susie's head. Both of them immediately looked away. Put together, these facts made something clench inside them.
Set the night after Chapter Five normal route.
Major spoilers for Chapter 5!Bookmarked by jackalshepherd
11 Jul 2026
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Noelle angles her head to follow Susie's gaze over to the the perforated picnic table where Kris is no longer folded over and slumped like forgotten laundry. It's empty.
She has a sixth sense of sorts that exists specifically for Kris. Kris has always been odd, and maybe it's because of that others haven't been able to distinguish Kris-typical strangeness from what they've started to become. But Noelle can. That's precisely the reason that she can tell something's been off about them for awhile now.
And that's precisely why even while her head was furrowed against the softness where Susie's beating heart pulsed frantically into her ear, all she could hear was the intense rattling of the ferris wheel shaking.
Susie and Noelle find that they lose their footing without their third wheel.
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- Part 2 of distance between two
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John doesn’t even flinch when Father Garcia flicks his cigarette butt into the grass, crushes it beneath his heel, and then points the barrel of his shotgun right between his eyes.
Maybe John is afraid, buried deep beneath the haze of exhaustion. Maybe later when his battered head stops feeling like it's been stuffed with cotton and his ears stop buzzing like flies drawn to a rotting corpse, he’ll look back and wonder if he should have run while he had the chance to.
Instead, he almost laughs, a deep, hollow, and painfully empty thing that sounds too close to a sob. He almost laughs because after the month he’s had, a near stranger pointing a gun at his forehead barely scratches the bottom of the list of the worst dangers he’s been subjected to.
In which, surviving is the easy part. Living is the hard part.
Bookmarked by jackalshepherd
20 May 2026
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The morning after the Profane Sabbath, John Ward awakens, disoriented, in a car driving cross-country.
Bookmarked by jackalshepherd
21 Nov 2024